Jean Brooks Landscapes

Jean Brooks Landscapes has been designing and building gardens around Chelsea and the western suburbs — Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Newton, Wellesley, Belmont, Arlington, Lexington, Winchester — for what the company says is more than 35 years, and its founder, Jean, is credited on the company's own site with industry design awards from the New England Flower Show and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The reviews back up a company built around design work, not just installation. One customer, writing in a 2022 review, described 15 years of ongoing work — praising "detailed knowledge of design and regard for care of the many and various plants" — while another, also writing in 2022, described a backyard oasis the company built five years earlier that they've kept maintaining and improving every year since. A 2022 review named both the designer, Tim, and the construction manager, Ben Stafford, for turning a yard's hardscape and plant palette into something that worked through every season. On the build side, a 2023 review described a full backyard regrade — the crew started work the same week they met to discuss it and finished within days — and a 2025 review credited the team with designing a new patio, stairs, and walkway from scratch. The most recent review on file, from June 2026, describes a small, awkwardly shaped yard the crew still managed to fill with the customer's requested native plants, noting plainly that the company isn't the cheapest option but that the work justified the cost. That line echoes across the rest of the reviews too — professionalism and design quality come up far more than price, and nobody describes them as inexpensive. On Houzz, the company holds a 4.9-star average from 23 reviews along with six Houzz Awards and five Houzz Badges, on top of a perfect five-star Google page. For anyone in the Chelsea-to-western-suburbs corridor looking for landscape design that goes beyond a standard planting job — full builds, seasonal maintenance relationships that run for years, or a hardscape project designed around the space — this is a company with a long, unusually consistent history behind it; budget for design-forward pricing rather than the cheapest quote in the stack.